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griff jenkins. thank you. as today at the border as griff was just telling us and so that's anticipated as arizona congressman andy biggs has drawn up articles of impeachment against mayorkas writing certainly joe biden and kamala harris have a substantial amount of blame with this. they are the ones who campaigned on this but mayorkas has not pushed back at all. so he is the guy who is responsible for the border security and national security and it is a disaster down there, end quote. here now reaction in focus, texas congressman chip roy. congressman, this cannot be said plainly enough. complicated by and plus covid. why doesn't this administration care about as much as us being exposed to covid by people rolling into our country, some as much as 50% of the groups covid positive as about what we do? >> thanks for having me on. acan't agree more with what border patrol chief scott said with respect to this being a national security crisis. it is a direct impact on our communities in texas. secretary mayorkas

alicia: griff jenkins, thank you.c. .>>> is astronomical, the number of people and some of them are coughing. they're obviously sick. ands there's no doubt, i mean, we protect ourselves, we wear a face covering, we wear gloves. we do our best so we can continue helping others. if we get sick then we're out of the game. that's a problem and then these people are getting out to other places around the country and people don't know that they're in the country, in their city or state. that's a problem. eric: that's sergeant manuel cassis describing the threat of migrants he says infected with covid being released into his community. he and others are sounding the alarm, warning the nation that coronavirus could spread across the country from the migrants flooding the southern border. we're told they're tested and are quarantined if they test positive. reports say many migrants refuse to be vaccinated and border facilities are overwhelmed. texas congressman ronnie jackson joins us, former white house doctor for both presid

griff jenkins has details now on this final day of evacuations.the longest war in us history. i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan in the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens. our country nationals and vulnerable afghans. the pentagon announcing the last of the u. s troops have left afghanistan effectively ending america's longest war hours before the president's august 31st deadline while the military evacuation is complete. diplomatic mission to ensure additional u. s citizens and eligible afghans who want to leave continues their departure coming despite more violence in kabul on the final day spent drawing down forces. us officials reporting five rocket attacks overnight three landingff theabul airfieldct and thwart the attack of one and the other rocket landed with no effect to the mission or any danger to our personnel. pentagon. spokesman john kirby asked about a separate strikes sunday, said this about reports a u. s drone targeting an isis k threat killed 10 afghans, including seven c

griff jenkins, thank you so much for that. me now to discuss tonight, retired navy commander peter brook brooks, also a senior research fellow for the heritage foundation, and rebecca grant, independent researcher. peter, so much to get to here, so much important information. tuesday is the deadline, okay in and here is what we know. the white house is warning of further terror attacks, and we know that there are at least over 5100 troops right at the airport alone and others that we still need to evacuate. jen psaki said today the most dangerous part of the mission still lies ahead. how does this play out over the course of the next couple of days? >> well, hopefully, safely. but, you know, it didn't need to come to this, jackie. this is a failed policy. this could have been avoided. so many things could have been done differently; leaving a residual force, not leaving so precipitously and seeing the fall of the afghan security forces, bagram airfield, bagram prison. i mean, you know the whole list of things. so that's import

america's linus war now officially over, i'm griff jenkins at the state department, with the latest on the u. s troop withdrawal in afghanistan. also ahead. good samaritans help save a surfer from drowning at san francisco's ocean beach still ahead here from one of the women being hailed a hero. the final planes have departed the kabul airport marking the end of 20 years of war. it was a frantic two week long evacuation that allowed more than 116,000 people to leave the country, including americans and afghan partners. but the pentagon says some americans were left behind fox news, griff jenkins with details on the final day of the airlift. i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan in the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable afghans, the pentagon announcing the last of the u. s troops have left afghanistan effectively ending america's longest war hours before the president's august 31st deadline while the military evacuation is complete. diplomatic mission to ensure additional u. s citizens and el

griff jenkins reports. president biden said there was no national interest in staying in afghanistan after 20 years, and he called the evacuation a success. despite the deaths of u. s service members. it was time to end this war. president biden work to defend his decision to withdraw u. s troops from afghanistan one day after the last soldier departed kabul ahead of the august 31st deadline. this decision about afghanistan. it's not just about afghanistan. it's about ending an era. of major military operations to remake other countries. i take responsibility for the decision, the president addressing criticism that 200 or fewer americans still remain despite executing the largest airlift in u. s history, evacuating more than 123,000 over the past few weeks for those remaining americans. there is no deadline. we remain committed to get them out if they want to come out, but the end of america's longest war came with a cost marked by recent violence and deadly attacks, including the death of 13 service membe

griff jenkins at the state department and first trey yingst. you are aware they have been taking americans and taking some of the afghans who helped us in the war get off the ground. what can you tell us? >> good morning. we're following this breaking news out of kabul, afghanistan. two explosions reported just outside the airport. we were at this airport sunday morning as qatar helped to take afghan evacuees to doha. what we are learning about the explosions, two of them. one taking place near the abbey gate and one near the barron gate. two of the main entrances to the airport in kabul where u.s. forces helped to set a perimeter to help with the flow of evacuees onto the airfield. this was likely, according to reports, an attack conducted by isis-k. a group that both british and american intelligence officials were warning about over the past several days. a group that could launch attacks in the region. a very small organization. the offshoot of the islamic state that started around 2014. and the northern province in afghanistan is where the

griff jenkins is there. do you have an update for us? further guidance they may be giving the americans, those 1500 that seem to be stranded wanting to get out. they haven't commented officially. the latest is a 15-hour ago alert sent out to americans and worth repeating what was in the alert that you mentioned at the top of the show. they are advising american citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and avoid airport gates unless you receive individual instructions from a u.s. government representative and citizens at the abbey gate and east gate and north gate should leave immediately. we have this complex suicide bomber ied at the abbey gate. what instructions the americans are getting we don't know. it is clear now that they should not attempt in any way to get to the gate and that doesn't include, by the way, the afghan allies, the thousands we have talked about for the last couple of days that are simply abandoned. we have been tracking some efforts, private efforts for some of these afghan allies to get out. some that were unsu

griff jenkins is live in the nation's capital breaking down the democrats' spending spree. we go to marianne farr e -- rafferty live. >> reporter: andrew whoa mow cuo maintains he never sexually harassed anyone. >> i never crossed the line with anyone but i didn't realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. the best way i can help now is if i step aside. >> reporter: accuser lindsey boilen baffled at cuomo's continued denial. i simply asked that he stop his abusive behavior. it became clear he was unable to do that, instead attacking and blaming victims until the end. the governor's brother, chris cuomo, saying silent as he is peppered with questions about the scandal in this video obtained by fox news. >> have you spoken to your brother today, sir? did you advise him to step down? do you believe the women's stories? did you counsel your brother to malign them? >> reporter: president biden questioned about the scandal, raising eyebrow as he appears to praise the disgraced governor. >> can you really say that he has done, quote, a hell of a job, if he is accused o

todd: griff jenkins would normally be the top story. blame cuomo, this is still a big story. >> reporter: the senate has been very busy, just a block away from us. and they did as you mentioned take that first step towards passing the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package. it was straight down party lines. one republican, mike brown was absent and majority leader chuck schumer is not surprisingly hailing the passage. >> despite this long road we've taken, we have finally, finally reached the finish line. of course, we democrats believe we need to do much more. >> reporter: but minority leader mitch mcconnell is blasting the partisan move. >> they want to put behind this budget resolution, like somebody walked across the rotunda to the house and handed the squad a pen and piece of paper. >> reporter: this after overnight senate did pass that $1.2 trillion infrastructure you're looking here at the 19 gop senators who handed the president his long sought after bipartisan victory. in total, the deal includes $550 billion in new federa

i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: hey there, griff. i'm jacqui heinrich. yeah, the albany county sheriff craig apple talked about the report, a woman identified executive assistant number one who accused cuomo of multiple incidents of sexual harassment including groping her breast in the governor's mansion. he denied that. and he said this could result in arrest which adds another layer to this whole thing as it's unfolding over the last week. neil: it's been fast-moving as you say. just on tuesday we learned of this report, 168 pages, 11 women claiming sexual harassment, groping, various degrees of things, but the very first witness, woman in this executive assistant number one, described in this report as a mother. she's married and she details encounters she had as an assistant in the governor's mansion, specifically an incident in november of last year, november 2020 she says at that the governor went in for a hug, reached into her blouse and grabbed her breast. and we'll see if that's now in sheriff craig apple's formal complaint. jacqui: the new york

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mike: griff jenkins live on capitol hill rain or shine, he is a man on the scene. mike: the cdc says 58% of americans 12 years and older are fully vaccinated as the agency reverses its guidance on indoor mask wearing regardless of vaccination status is leaving many concerned about the return of covid restrictions mark meredith live with more. >> plenty of rain at the white house, less than a month ago president biden made it clear he believed the pandemic and was in sight and no longer appears to be the case with the fears of the delta variant continued to spread throughout the country last week the cdc recommended people put their masks back on even if they were fully vaccinated no surprise that your a lot of criticism including from lawmakers but health officials tell fox news they still believe it's necessary at least in the short term. >> delta is spreading we know it's extremely contagious and certainly in some parts of the country like missouri, arkansas, louisiana it is reaching high levels and were once again seeing case levels per day closing in on 100,000

griff jenkins with more. hey, griff. reporter: neil, things are very fluid at the state department and it is worth reminding our viewers that the state department has had the lead in this non-combatant evacuation operation since august 14th, continue to have that lead and nothing is more important right now, hour by hour, minute by minute than tracking the 1500 roughly americans that they believe are now stranded being told from the alert that we reported on just two hours ago telling americans to avoid traveling to the airport and if you are at that abbey gate, east gate, northgate, leave immediately. they will be told to follow the instructions. we heard the state department telling congressional offices on the hill not to encourage independent operations in coordinating any of those americans or afghan allies with siv applications approved to come to the airport. however we dead get an update here just moments ago, neil. that is the story of the california, southern california cajon valley area schoolchildren. they we

correspondent griff jenkins is at the state department now with a preview. heard from the secretary of state earlier, griff, good evening. and he basically was setting the table. we won't have a diplomatic presence there on the ground after tonight. >> that's right, bret. good evening, we expect the announcement from secretary blinken to be fundamentally the suspension of a diplomatic presence in afghanistan and, of course, they have left the door open based on the behavior of the taliban whether they can be trusted to see if we will have another relationship of sorts. but we also expect the secretary to say that the top priority right now is the evacuation of the what they call less than 250 american citizens to get out safely who may still want to get out. no question we left some behind. along with the thousands of afghan allies and that task has been made much more difficult now that the taliban are in control of the airport, there is no international agreement on who will operate it. and that means that over land routes are going to be the method to get

reporter griff jenkins has the story. crowds gathered around a car fire monday after rocket fire targeting kabul's international airport struck a nearby neighborhood, u. s officials saying missile defense systems intercepted multiple rockets as many as five fired on kabul's airport. this as a steady stream of u. s. military cargo jets made their final departures evacuating at risk americans and afghans from the region totaling more than 122,000. as of monday. movement of personnel. very fluid. the biden administration, saying it remains committed to tuesday's withdrawal date despite the ongoing violence, last week's attack killed nearly 200 people, including 13 u. s troops sunday, the president and first lady do, marking the homecoming of there remains but with evacuations still incomplete. the biden administration continues to face mounting criticism. biden's own intelligence community. just this week was very clear that al qaeda tends to cut intends to roar back and hit us again. any responsible president would give sig

the biden administration continues its major push to get people vaccinated and as foxes griff jenkinsorts, the white house is also considering withholding federal funding for states to get the job done. the new covid surges accelerating as the debate over mandates heats up. we're now averaging almost 90,000 new cases every day up 33% from last week as the delta variants spreads quickly, the white house now making a big push towards vaccine mandates, but they're not commenting on a washington post report that the president is considering withholding federal funds for states and institutions that don't require shots for their employees. the report comes as the white house struggles to get governors in covid hotspots to implode. it. new restrictions were focused on providing public health data to make sure they understand what steps they should be taking, even if those are not steps taken at the top of the leadership in that state, about a third of all new covid cases are in florida in texas, but governors in both of those states are firmly against new mitigation measures, including mask

as griff jenkins shows us a war of words has broken out between the white house.and the leader of florida on how to handle the surge. the delta vary in continuing to drive a sharp increase of new covid-19 cases. the cdc says. the strain now accounts for around 93% of new infections in the us this latest surge, leading to more vaccine mandates nationwide. the secretary of defense is expected to announce tomorrow that active duty u. s service members must get vaccinated. but some health experts argue the widespread mandates need exemptions. what if you had one dose and you had a severe allergic reaction? you can't get the second dose. meanwhile los angeles could be the next city to enact vaccine passports. city council is set to consider a proposal that would require people to demonstrate they've received at least one vaccine dose in order to visit indoor places such as restaurants, bars, gyms and retail stores. these are steps that ought to be taken to encourage people who want to fully participate in our society. to get the vaccine this as a growing number of stat

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>> bret: griff jenkins at the state department. thank you.can senator tom cotton serves on intelligence and armed services committee. senator, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, bret. >> bret: you just heard that report from the state department, your reaction to what's happening or how they are talking about it. >> well, bret, the state department still can't get its facts straight. just two hours before tony blinken told america that there were 1500 of their fellow citizens stranded in afghanistan, one of his aides briefed congressional staff and said there were 4100. something tells me they didn't get 2600 american citizens out in the span of two hours today. the state department still nearly two weeks on cannot answer the simple question of how many americans we have stranded in afghanistan. and i'm worried that this reflects the desire by joe biden to roll up stakes and fly out in a few days and to say that any american still in afghanistan wanted to stay there. well, we have got lots and lots of americans who have contacted

karl rove on deck, griff jenkins at the white house. >> if you're confused you aren't alone on masked mandates versus mask recommendations. eight states with mask mandates. six require only unvaccinated people wear masks indoors, california, connecticut, illinois, nevada, new mexico, new york, washington state. two states require that everyone regardless of your vaccination status wear masks indoors, hawaii and louisiana. nevada is requiring everyone to wear a mask in 12 of their 17 counties. so not fully statewide. louisiana has the highest covid-19 transmission rate in the country this week. here is the governor. >> we have to do our part to slow transmission, to reduce the demand on our hospital systems. we have to do that now in order to buy ourselves the time necessary to get people vaccinated so that we can reverse the current trends. >> many cities have their own mask mandates. most recently the city of san francisco and seven bay area counties are requiring everyone, including the fully vaccinated, wear a mask indoors. the same is true for atlanta, los angeles city and county,

griff jenkins has the details on the final day of evacuations and the end of the longest war in us historyi'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan in the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable afghans, the pentagon announcing the last of the u. s troops have left afghanistan effectively ending america's longest war hours before the president's august 31st deadline while the military evacuation is complete. diplomatic mission to ensure additional u. s citizens and eligible afghans who want to leave continues their departure coming despite more violence in kabul on the final day spent drawing down forces. us officials reporting five rocket attacks overnight three landing off the kabul airfield. see ram was able to affect and thwart the attack. one and the other rocket landed with no effect to the mission or any danger to our personnel. pentagon spokesman john kirby asked about a separate strikes sunday, said this about reports a u. s drone targeting an isis k threat killed 10 afghans, including seven chi

will: griff jenkins, thank you so much, griff. ainsley: we definitely need to hear from the president and get all these residents out. he says his administration will be able to do it by august 31st. will: apparently the taliban's crisis growing pains result in the violence woe expected. what was surprising in griff's report and you pointed this out, steve, as and we are watching the defiance we are seeing from afghans on the street. this is surprising to see these protests, to see these afghans standing up against the potential taliban rule. >> absolutely. those people who were protesting against the taliban, remember, the taliban has got all the guns and they are going door to door taking everybody's guns. they don't want to see any flags other than the taliban flag which is white flag with the arabic lettering on it there you can see the national flag. ainsley: risking their lives to fly the flag. steve: that's why they are running for their lives right there. speaking of running for their lives, the state department and dod, t

you heard chuck schumer and gillibrand calling for his resignation, nancy pelosi, among others, griff jenkinsstate assembly will move forward with impeachment charges, we will see the timeline, how long that will take and what goes into that, the da out of all the requested those materials from the teacher james. will there be any other local charges, call charges? still to be seen but a number of people calling for his resignation. he did not resign yesterday were given including that he would. >> there's enough of a tailwind the movement is toward getting cuomo out if for no other reason than there are so many power-hungry people in albany and let's not be naÏve, the teacher james who did this investigation is extremely power-hungry herself and has designs on the governor's office. jillian: the governor had to authorize the probe to the teacher james which is an interesting fact. let's not forget that. he had to authorize this probe that could be the thing that brings them down. todd: we will have guests in the next 2 hours to discuss this point to see where we stand going forward. msnbc ve

jillian: the president will give a live address after the briefing, griff jenkins joins us with more. >> reporter: we will see what the president has to say as is august 30 first deadline is looming with us officials racing to evacuate thousands of desperate americans and vulnerable afghans a 5200 troops on the ground but the taliban assigning its grip on kabul, amid gunfire and massive crowds of the airport and filing crackdowns on dissidents after president biden claimed in an interview on abc there was no warning this was coming. >> president biden: the intelligence community did not say in june or july it was going to collapse like it did. >> reporter: in an internal state department menu reported by the wall street journal and confirmed by fox news, 2000 officials warned secretary of state blinken the afghan government would rapidly collapses us troops withdrew, the clearest evidence the administration was made aware it was imminent and afghan security forces would be unable to stop it. it is a warning rick grenell says the administration ignored. >> warnings were early and let m

griff jenkins joins us from washington as the biden administration admits more needs to be done at the border. >> mcallen, texas, is ground 0 for the border crisis, the city issuing a local disaster declaration setting up emergency shelters because the streets are overwhelmed with migrants left stranded after being released, the catholic charity has no capacity to house it. fox news conference according to reports the city commission last week about 13% of migrants released by the federal government are testing positive for covid right now. the city has released 7000 covid positive migrants into their city since february. 1500 new cases in just the last week. in a statement the city says they plan to, quote, demand relief from the federal government for the alarming number of immigrants that are being released into the city as residents afraid to go on camera are outraged. >> it is scary because right across the street from this holding facility you see homes where people live. >> this is the biden administration is reportedly planning to begin offering the vaccines the migrants, as pr

todd: griff jenkins with morris leaders tear into president biden. >> you are talking about the streetsmcallen, texas flooded with covid positive migrants released by the federal government. 7000 in february, 1500 and the last week. that is why the city declared disaster and set up temporary emergency shelters. the mayor is pleading for help. >> we are running out of money. at the end this is not our responsibility. our community is angry where before we could handle it i think we are at the point where it is difficult now. >> reporter: numbers reflect a worsening crisis. 834 unaccompanied children apprehended yesterday with a total of 2784 in custody, 14,500 in 23 in hhs shelters. it is a crisis. senator ted cruz says it is the administration's on making. >> this crisis is an absolute crisis is a man-made crisis. it was caused by president biden and kamala harris. they keep saying they want to understand the root cause of this crisis. they are the root cause. >> press secretary jen psaki said the administration is offering the vaccine to the migrants. >> that is not what the cvp is doi

welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins in washington. >> i'm anita voe-- vogel. hello, griff. we had a briefing from the pentagon a few moments ago. a dangerous situation, and president biden has canceled his planned trip home to wilmington, delaware. instead of getting briefed on the situation in afghanistan at the white house. we have fox news team coverage with lucas tomlinson at the pentagon and jacqui at the white house. and what are you hearing in doha. >> anita, good afternoon. there continues to be efforts by the international community to get as many civilians and diplomates out of afghanistan as possible of the flights are ongoing. as we know, the u.s. issued the alert warning of possible security threats outside of the gates where people are going into the airport facilities. we've seen video over the past six days of major clashes. taliban fighters outside trying to push back people who arrived there even with the correct paper work and u.s. military personnel, even pulling babies up over barbed wire trying to get them to safety. officials in doha are trying to mak

we go straight to jeff -- griff jenkins as we expect a decision on that deadline today. >> reporter: there is enormous pressure on the president to decide whether to extend past the august 30 first deadline which the taliban calls are redlined. the chairman of the house intelligence committee is expressing doubt about completing the mission. >> very unlikely. hard for me to imagine how that can be accomplished between now and the end of the month. the threat to the airport is very real. this would make an attractive target for isis or elements of al qaeda. >> this as neither the pentagon or state department will give specifics on the number of americans evacuated but political reporting the number is 4293 but more troubling, they don't know how many americans are currently stranded in afghanistan and they are sensitive to that word at the white house. >> it is irresponsible to say americans are stranded. we are committed to bringing americans who want to come home home. >> the white house's official position on what is happening in afghanistan. >> i'm calling you out for saying we ar

griff jenkins at the state department. >> good morning. state department not slowing their efforts in the wake of the deadly attack and amid the high terror threats. blinken hailing the lost calling them heroes saying they put themselves in harm's way so we can do our jobs on behalf of the american people. even after the attack they're doing that right now in kabul as they are in so many other parts of the world and they will continue to do so as we complete this mission. dana, we got a clear picture of exactly how many americans may remain. of those estimated 1500 who are believed to be stranded. state department says 500 have been evacuated. they say of the remaining 1,000, the quote vast majority, every 2/3 are believed to be nearly or already out of the country adding that dozens did not want to leave. they also say, dana, they heard from an additional 500 people who they say are american wanting to leave but the state department trying to contact them to verify that. meanwhile the guidance for americans still in country avoid travelin

griff: and i'm griff jenkins. said with samantha power as leader on the american response to this disaster. meanwhile, ryan chilcote has the latest for us. hi, ryan. >> reporter: hi, griff. yeah, haiti, a country that a just can't catch a break this year in general. you look at this earthquake, it struck just several hours ago, magnitude 7.2, at a depth of about 6 miles, so 10,000 meters out in caribbean about 5 miles off of the haitian coast and 90 miles from the capital. just getting news in, of course, the two real big concerns are, first, the possibility of a tsunami after the quake. the did issue a sue name warning immediately following the quake but has subsequently lifted that. that's good news. locals also saying that water did flood one coastal town but then retreated. that's another good sign. the second fear, of course, is that the damage that the quake can do on the island itself. it was felt in the capital 90 miles away and, in fact, many people there ran outdoors out of concern that buildings they wer

pete: griff jenkins joins us from washington with the latest where there is a mask mandate as well, griffiff: there is, indeed. i have my mask handy because we are in 2000. pete, ainsley, steve, it was a milestone monday at the white house. a month late. the white house says they finally hit that fourth of july goal of 70% of americans receiving at least one shot. and just over 60% are fully vaccinated. and the cdc director rochelle walensky is warning this delta variant is continuing to surge. >> this remains a pandemic of the unvaccinated. while vaccinated people can spread the vice if they get a break through infection, the odds of them getting sick in the first place are far lower than those that are unvaccinated. and, in fact, places with more vaccination generally have less disease. pete: this as senator lindsey graham says he has tested positive in a break through case. tweeting i am very glad i was vaccinated because without vaccination i'm certain i would not feel as i do now. my symptoms would be far worse. he will quarantine for the next 10 case. louisiana becoming the first st

to griff jenkins at the white house with the latest. griff? >> charles, good afternoon. just moments ago in the press briefing that is still underway right now, peter doocy pressing jen psaki about the covid part of the border crisis. here's what happened. watch. >> the public health at the border is the president concerned that migrants that are coming in in great numbers are not being tested for covid as the first part of contact with border patrol? >> well, let me give you a little bit of an understanding of what actually happens when people come across the border. first, as katie's earlier question, there's been no change in title 42. so families and single adults are expelled when apprehended at the southern border. that's step one. those that can't be expelled are often placed and goes to your question in alternative detention programs while their cases are being reviewed. cbp provides migrants with pp when they're taken into custody and they're required to keep masks on at all times. the other protocol, if anybody has signs of illness, they're referred to local he

griff jenkins from washington. >> week of powerful images the history books won't soon forget. the latest, children being pulled over the wall at the airport and there was absolute chaos friday outside those walls 5 days after kabul fell to the taliban. one searing. that baby being passed over barbed wire into the hands of a marine of the 20 fourth marine expeditionary group. ultimately he was reunited with his family. the footage that stunned the world, the c-17 lifting off, afghans clinging in desperation, some falling to their deaths. even the president defending the evacuation, a different reality on the ground, admits this is hard to watch. >> president biden: they are frightened, they are sad, uncertain what happens next. i don't think anyone can see these pictures and not feel that pain on a human level. >> reporter: president biden is facing growing bipartisan anger on capitol hill. 50 senators demand the president ramp up evacuations as multiple congressional committees are expected to hold hearings. senator bob menendez calling it a flawed execution asking secretary o

let's bring in griff jenkins who is live at the white house.onse to those serious and credible threats presented to american forces at the kabul airport. griff, what do you know? reporter: will, we are working at this hour right now to confirm what the nsc at the white house exactly what it is. but as we look at the black smoke billowing outside of the airport in kabul we first heard reports. there was a question whether this was part of the retrograde, whether the u.s. was destroying their ordnance we know they can't take with them. appears associated press and reuters reporting this was a u.s. air strike citing two officials in anonymity. the rocket hit a neighborhood northwest of kabul international airport and killed a child. we will find out what we learn about that but the ap also saying this was believed to be targeting more isis-k fighters. now we earlier this morning through our reporting obviously the statement from the president saying that the strikes will continue. he will continue to hunt down those that perpetrated the heinous at

jillian: griff jenkins joins us as you battle governor refuses to redesign. >> reporter: cuomo digging heels in but he's not mincing words calling to step down. >> i think he should re-sign. there are some embraces that were totally innocent but apparently the attorney general decided to refuse the warrant. >> the attorney general revealed the findings of an investigation the cuomo groped, kissed or sexually harassed 11 women. accusations the embattled governor is designing -- denying. >> i never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. heather: added a bizarre slideshow showing him touching and kissing people as part of his defense. >> i do it with everyone, black and white, younger and old, powerful people, friends, strangers. >> charlotte bennett, one of his accusers, reacting to the news. >> he sexually harassed me. i'm not confused. it is not confusing. i'm living in reality. i don't want an apology. it is not necessary, it is fake. as propaganda video was not only uncomfortable but downright weird and unnecessary. todd: the status of the speaker annou

griff jenkins joins us with more. >> reporter: the president's august 30 first deadline is looming and us officials are racing to evacuate thousands of desperate americans, vulnerable afghans with 5200 us troops on the ground while the taliban tightened its grip on kabul with checkpoints, gunfire and massive crowds at airports and crackdowns on dissidents after the president claims there was no warning this was coming. >> the intelligence community did not say in june or july it was going to call's like it did. >> reporter: in an internal state department memo first reported by the wall street journal and confirmed by fox news, 2 dozen officials at the kabul embassy want secretary of state blinken and other top officials the afghan government would rapidly collapse as us troops withdrew, the clearest evidence the administration was made aware taliban takeover was imminent. it is a warning rick grenell says the administration ignored. >> warnings were early. let me tell you in early june i have seen evidence of a stark warning to jake sullivan early june. >> reporter: bipartisan anger o

jillian: let's go to griff jenkins in washington. we expect a decision on that deadline today. >> reporter: the president is about to face greater pressure from our g7 allies overextending the august 30 first deadline which the taliban calls a red line. even the chairman of the house intelligence committee expressing doubt about completing the mission in time. >> very unlikely. it is hard for me to imagine all that being accomplished between now and the end of the month. the threat to be a pretty is very real as this would be an attractive target for isis or elements of al qaeda. >> reporter: neither the state department or the pentagon will get specific about the number americans evacuated, political reporting that number is 4293. more troubling, they don't know how many americans are stranded, a word they don't like to use at the white house. >> irresponsible to say americans are stranded. they are not. they are committed to bringing americans who want to come home home. >> there are no americans stranded is the white house's offic

as griff jenkins pointed out, it is a very difficult neighborhood.ibal areas. the difficulties with iran and uzbekistan and others are heavily influenced by russia and not very cooperative. so we're in a terrible situation. this notion that we have leverage over the taliban. let me tell you having sat across the table from these thugs. they will turn it on this team very quickly. every time they don't get access to the billions in foreign reserves or economic assistance or international recognition they can walk down the street and take another hostage. they are the ones with leverage. this administration has handed it to them on a silver platter. >> bill: two points to be made here then a question, michael. first one of the points, mitch mcconnell with chris wallace on sunday. >> we're looking at the exit and over the next two days our heroic military is doing the best they can with a horrible policy decision. this is one of the worst foreign policy decisions in american history. much worse than saigon. after we left saigon, there weren't vietnamese

welcome to "fox news live," i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich.the deadline for the u.s. to be out of the country despite thousands of afghans and others still scrambling to leave. david spunt at the white house, doug luzader in washington and lucas tomlinson at the pentagon, trey yingst in doha, qatar. they're, test start with you. >> reporter: 66 flights have taken off from kabul, evacuating around 7,000 people. this brings the total number of evacuees since the taliban took over to nearly 120,000. though we know people are still trying to leave the city, the numbers so far lower following that blast on thursday. the taliban has increased their perimeter around the airport trying to curb the flow of people into the abbey gate and the canal area. you can hear in the voice of people still desperate really to just get out of the country and flee the taliban. that august 31st evacuation deadline quickly approaching. there is an understanding that some civilian flights to kabul could resume after the americans leave, but they would need to be control

griff jenkins at the state department with the latest on the evacuation. we begin with the pentagon. lucas tomlinson is standing by. >> several hundred troops have already departed as president biden says he will not extend his august 31 deadline despite thousands of afghans and some americans languishing outside the gates. >> president biden: we're currently on a pace to finish by august 31st. the sooner we can finish, the better. each day of operations brings added risk to our troops. but the completion of august 31 depends upon the taliban continuing to cooperate and allow access to the airport. >> these young soldiers and marines are serving as air traffic controllers around the clock at the airport in kabul. evacuation flights launching every 45 minutes. a race against the deadline with a few days remaining. 19,000 people were evacuated yesterday, over 80,000 since august 14th including 4,000 americans. biden announced he would not move the august 31st deadline hours after the taliban said they wouldn't allow him to. 5500 troops remain in kabul and do

griff jenkins is standing by. can you get in here before we go back to psaki?estions in. number of citizens trying to get out is in the hundreds, not the thousands, estimated 1000 americans are potentially stranded. they believe this hour that "vast majority, two-thirds, believed to be nearly or out of the country, and say dozens are wanting to remain behind," and they are not giving exact numbers see if we get them at the briefing. sandra. >> jessica: covid-19 health precaution including immediate covid-19 testing and vaccines on arrival. numerous other federal agency to ensure access to medical care and sufficient support to enable successful resettlement in the united states. the president is grateful for the critical role, dedicated workforce, including military servicemen and women, diplomat and law enforcement and many others are and implementing this effort. this afternoon, the president and fema administration, chriswell will host a call with governors of louisiana and mississippi to discuss preparation for tropical storm ida, expected to make landfall

todd: griff jenkins joins us live from washington as fox news learns july apprehensions are the highestn 20 years. griff. >> reporter: unbelievable, todd and jillian, good morning. consider this, more than a half of a million migrants have illegally crossed our southwest borders since secretary mayorkas last visited in may and today he is headed to ground zero in the rio grande valley, tweeting, quote, wheels up for south texas, dhs is executing our plan to rebuild a safe, orderly and humane immigration system, this aztecs as congressman chip roy tweets at secretary mayorkas and president biden calling for impeachment over handling of the border crisis, showing this video of overcrowded conditions inside a holding facility, it comes as the incoming border patrol chief takes the reins on sunday, confirming to fox news that the new july apprehension mum glers will be the -- numbers will be the highest in more than 30 years. >> this is the most complicated situation i have ever experienced. we have heard that the official july figures for apprehensions are going to be north of 210,000. we'

. >> griff jenkins joins us live from washington with brand-new exclusive audio recordings, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carley and ashley. remember vice president harris' please don't come message, clearly that isn't getting through. secretary mayorkas announcing more than 212,000 encounters in july, a five-fold increase over last july and a number we have not seen since march of 2000. >> the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. it is complicated, changing and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. >> reporter: but behind closed doors in this leaked audio talking to border patrol agents, mayorkas says the situation is more dire than he is publicly willing to admit. >> [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: this as outgoing border patrol chief roddy skatt in a farewell message to agents does not mince words. >> whether it's covid, whether it be the massive crisis on the southwest border right now or whether it just be the general tone of society and the anti-police movement, there's a lot of stress out there and we would be fooling ou

griff: griff jenkins, the second his life. mike tobin.hat a third suspect has been taken into custody but a chicago police officer, a young woman

griff jenkins joins us, more needs to be done at the border. >> let me pick up where ashley left off,xas is not just a border town, but ground 0 for the border crisis, the city, local disaster declaration, sitting of emergency shelters because the streets are flooded with migrants left stranded after being released by border patrol to a charity with no space left a house in the city says 13% of migrants released are testing positive for covid, several thousand released into their citizens february 15, '00 new cases in the last week alone. the city says they intend to demand release from the federal government for the alarming number of immigrants being released into the city. as residents afraid to go on camera are speaking out. >> it is just really scary because across the street from this holding facility you see homes where people live. >> this as the biden administration is planning to begin offering the vaccine to migrants in cvp custody is white house press secretary jen psaki acknowledges the urgency of the situation while continuing to blame the trump administration for it. >>

carley: griff jenkins is live with brand-new audio recordings that are telling. >> reporter: we haven't seen these kind of numbers since the spring of the year 2000, never during a raging pandemic. secretary mayorkas announcing this number here, more than 212,000 encounters in july, a five-fold increase over last july. >> the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. it is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. >> reporter: but behind closed doors, in this leaked audio, talking to border patrol agents, mayorkas admits the situation is much more dire. >> these numbers cannot continue. we cannot get to the point we were a couple weeks ago and we're going to make sure that doesn't happen. >> reporter: meanwhile, outgoing border patrol chief rodney skott not mincing words on what his agents are facing today. >> i firmly believe it is a national security crisis. immigration is a subcomponent of it. whether it be covid, whether it be the massive crisis on the southwest border right now or whether it just be the general to

people that are pestering her the most are the yeoman's work of the reporting you saw from bill and griff jenkins and the white house press briefing room. these are the inconvenient reporting the white house wants ignored. you see, they count on a problem like this not being covered and without the fox news channel, without those drone shots and without those live shots in mission and mcallen, texas, this is supposed to be something that is happening in the shadows. that is happening on page a-17 in the "new york times" with barely a mention. which is an invasion of our border, an invasion of our sovereignty and a total disregard for the rule of law. the numbers of people -- it is stunning. it is staggering. we cannot get numb or become numb to this reality. what the administration wanted to tell us a couple of months ago is summer is coming. this is a seasonal flow. you will see the numbers reduce as they always do in the summer. instead the numbers are bigger than ever. it is a wide open sign on our border and ultimately our agents are doing the best they can but they are being pulled off the l

griff jenkins, thanks very much. we're waiting for jen psaki to come out. we expect more question and answer there. i want to bring you k.t. mcfarland from the trump administration and marc thiessen, american enterprise institute scholar and speechwriter for george w. bush. a couple quick questions here. 4,500 americans have been evacuated according to the secretary of state. he thinks the number is somewhere between 500 and 1,000 of those that are still remaining that want to get out. do those numbers sound correct to you? do you have any idea if they sound right? >> no. i'm afraid to say the state department was 10 to 15,000. number 1, he's not addressing the people scattered around the country, in the hinderlands. we have pockets of american citizens in all of those provinces. two girls that are teaching english to afghan girls. we have aid workers that are helping build water treatment plants in other parts of the country. he didn't address how those people are supposed to make their way all the way from where they are, traveling on a dirt road, passing